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Sacred Gyre
by Emily Newberry
Creating positive change requires staying connected to your deepest values. This can be difficult when you feel under pressure. Let's have a conversation about how to do it!
Episodes
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Episode 30 A Conversation With Rashida Saunders
In this episode of Sacred Gyre I have a conversation with Rashida Saunders, a Portland police Officer who grew up in poverty in the Black community who, in her memoir and podcasts, explores strength, leadership, service, emotional wellness, and what it means to remain human while carrying...
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Episode 29 What Do I Want for Christmas?
A time when I received a gift I didn't expect. And learned how it might be more of a gift than I thought at first.
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Episode 28 Navigating Uncertainty With My Torn Meniscus
In this episode I navigate through a recent knee injury, what it tells me about how we measure things, and about the ways life can be both certain and uncertain.
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Episode 27 Integrating My Memories of 9/11
In this Episode of Sacred Gyre I think about my own reaction to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 2001, and how I think this helps me stay connected to my deepest values under challenging circumstances.
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Episode 26 A Crack in One of My Perfect Stories
In this episode of Sacred Gyre I talk about an incident in which one of my personal "perfect stories" becomes obvious and how I am reacting. I then offer some thoughts on how this appears in the larger society and what I think is our responsibility as we notice such "perfect stories."
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Episode 25 Oh no! Another Opportunity to Live My Values
In this episode of Sacred Gyre, I grapple with a decision by my health care provider to stop certain forms of care for transgender youth. What should I do as I feel anger, fear or sadness in response? And what, if anything should you do in similar circumstances?
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Episode 24 Navigating My Discomfort With Unconscious Bias
In this episode of Sacred Gyre, I use an example from my own life to illustrate the ways in which well-intended language about social change can potentially create harm. In addition to my thoughts on this subject, I also use this podcast episode as a way to hold myself accountable.
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Episode 23 A Conversation With Carolyn Martin After my Reading of Her poems
In the last episode of Sacred Gyre, I read a collection of 13 poems from the newly released book Splitting Open the World by Carolyn Martin. In this episode 23 Carolyn and I have a conversation about the vulnerability of writing poems about your own life, and of her reaction to my reading of her...
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Splitting Open The World
Today, I invite you to a reading of poems I selected from Splitting Open the World, By Carolyn Martin. I do this, of course, with her permission. It was published in March 2025 by The Poetry Box a publisher working " To bring the joy of poetry to everyone," as they say in their mission statement....
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Episode 21 The Old Machinist and The Young
In this episode of Sacred Gyre I will talk about my learning experiences and think about to what extent they do or do not resonate with the experience of people who work in the medical professions. I've found that reflecting on my life at times so I can learn from my mistakes as well as from when…
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Episode 20 The Biology of Spirit and the Spirit of Biology
In this episode I use an example of a chance encounter with a book and article to highlight ways in which my sense of spirituality evolves over time. I also reveal my thoughts that one's spiritual aspect need not be about religion per se, although, for many people, that is a very important…
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Interview with Robert O'Connor author of Jeep Show, a Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge
Jeep Show, A Trouper at the Battle of the Bulge, by Robert O'Connor tells the story of Jim Hetzer who enlisted in the army during World War II and is assigned to the Morale Corps as an Entertainment Specialist. These soldiers went near the front lines in small groups to entertain the soldiers and...
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Thanks But No Thanks
I'll do it my way. I imagine I am not the only person who has strong feelings after the recent presidential election. As an 80-year-old transgender woman, I have a lot of feelings around bathroom bills and laws stopping gender affirming care. I assure you that I have given myself time and space…
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Why I Changed Names
I have changed the name of my Substack website to WWII Baby. Yes, I am a World War II baby, born in 1944 when the war was raging on. My new logo has WW II Baby at the top, a spiral in the middle, and the words “Age Less, Grow More” at the bottom.
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Episode 16 Staying Centered in the Face of Senseless Acts
I interrupted my work on Butterfly Arose because I noticed myself having emotional reactions to the attempted assassination of former President Trump. I created this episode of Sacred Gyre as a way of helping myself stay connected to my deepest values so I can continue my writing on Butterfly…
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Episode 15 Pax by Annie Lighthart
In this episode I read a selection of poems from her new book.
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Episode 14 Keeping and Deepening the Vital Connection
A new Sacred Gyre post in which I offer myself the chance to deepen my connection with my own values before creating the next Butterfly Arose podcast episode.
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On Spirituality
The importance of spirituality in my own life, where mine came from and how it helped me stay connected to my deepest values as I work for change.
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Episode 11 I am starting a new podcast
My new podcast on butterflyarose.com will be a place where I talk about my personal belifs on issues important to me, and thoughts on books and other peeole's podcasts whom I respect.
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A Conversation with Mikki Gillette
In this Episode I talk with playwrite Mikki Gillette about how she stays conected to her deepest values as she works for change.
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Episode 10 Reflections on my own activism
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Episode 9 Organizational Dilemmas - Learnings from The Fifth Discipline
How can we be bettter at organizational change. And how to we take ito account who we are given what we learned from Episode 7 The Adaptive Unconscious?
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Episode 8 We are a complex system embedded in complex systems
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Episode 7 The Adaptive Unconscious
Sacred Gyre Episode 7
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The challenges of unexpected changes
The challenges of unexpected changes
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We are also affected by those around us.
We are also affected by those around us.
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Challenges on a personal level.
Challenges on a personal level.
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Why does this matter? Aren’t I always connected to my values?
Why does this matter? Aren’t I always connected to my values?
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What do I mean by deepest values?
What do I mean by deepest values?
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Why I started this podcast.
Why I started this podcast.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Creating positive change requires staying connected to your deepest values. This can be difficult when you feel under pressure. Let's have a conversation about how to do it!
HOSTED BY
Emily Newberry
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How many episodes does Sacred Gyre have?
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Creating positive change requires staying connected to your deepest values. This can be difficult when you feel under pressure. Let's have a conversation about how to do it!
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Who hosts Sacred Gyre?
Sacred Gyre is created and hosted by Emily Newberry.
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